Film Directors Mediagraphy - Robert Altman
updated (10/00)

Aria [videorecording] / Lightyear Entertainment and Virgin Vision. [S.l.] . c1988. 1 videocassette (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Ten of the world's best-known film makers were given a free hand to make a short-film version of an operatic aria without necessarily following the aria's story line (for example, Rigoletto interpreted as a sex farce). The result is a succession of segments representing a variety of film-making styles. VHS 1934

Fool for love [videorecording] / Cannon Films, Inc. New York . c1987. 1 videocassette (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. In the barren outskirts of the New Mexico desert, at the seedy El Royale Motel, May (Basinger) has taken refuge in her flight from Eddie (Shepard), a cowboy drifter with whom she has a passionate love/hate relationship. Martin (Randy Quaid) is May's nervous gentleman caller who unwittingly walks into a hornet's nest when he arrives for an innocent date. VHS 1475

The Long goodbye [videorecording] / Lions Gate Films Inc. ; E-K Corporation. Culver City, CA . c1991. 1 videocassette (113 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Philip Marlowe is an unromanticized snoop for hire in an unromanticized LA. Working for fifty bucks a day plus expenses, he tries to solve a case the police dismiss as murder/suicide. VHS 3813

MASH [videorecording] / Twentieth century Fox ; an Ingo Preminger production ; Aspen Productions. M.A.S.H. M*A*S*H. Farmington Hills, Mich. 1984. 1 videocassette (116 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in. Story focuses on three Army surgeons, Hawkeye Pierce (Sutherland), Duke Forrest (Skerritt), and Trapper John McIntyre (Gould). They develop a lunatic life-style in order to handle everyday horrors encountered in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. Accompanying them are a weird corporal, Radar O'Reilly (Burghoff), a martinet nurse, Major "Hot Lips" Hoolihan (Kellerman), and a sanctimonious Major (Robert Duvall). VHS 116

McCabe & Mrs. Miller [videorecording] / Warner Brothers. McCabe and Mrs. Miller. New York . 1982. 1 videocassette (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. An offbeat drama of frontier life in the Pacific Northwest. A gambling gunfighter comes at the turn of the century to Presbyterian Church, a mining town, and with his winnings from a small-time card hustle sets up a fancy casino-brothel-bathhouse. VHS 118

Nashville [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures Corporation ; American Broadcasting Co. Hollywood . 1979. 2 videocassettes (159 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Drama/comedy that interweaves the lives of 24 characters during five days in Nashville, the country music capital of the world. VHS 106

The Player [videorecording] / a Fine Line Features release of an Avenue Pictures presentation in association with Spelling Entertainment. [United States] . c1997. 1 videocassette (ca. 124 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. A celebrity-studded thriller of murderous obsession among Hollywood's glamorous elite. When callous movie studio executive Griffin Mill (Robbins) starts receiving anonymous death threats from a rejected screenwriter, his already shaky career begins to crumble. Finally his desperation drives him to kill - but did he rub out the wrong writer? VHS 5067

Streamers [videorecording] / Streamers International Distributors, Inc. Los Angeles, Calif. : Media Home Entertainment, Inc., c1984. 1 videocassette (118 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Four young recruits and two veterans in an army barracks await the orders that will send them to Vietnam. Threatened and altered by forces beyond their control, herded, confined and stripped of all protective armor, they are driven into a confrontation as violent and psychologically devastating as war itself. VHS 206

Vincent & Theo [videorecording] / Hemdale Film Corporation ; a Belbo Film in association with Arena Films. Vincent and Theo. New York, NY . c1998. 1 videocassette (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. This film paints a provocative picture of the tragic life of artist Vincent Van Gogh and his obsessively dedicated brother Theo. VHS 5258

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